Posts Tagged: Palestinians
Secretary Kerry’s Suspension of Disbelief
The term “suspension of disbelief” refers to the intentional subordination of critical thinking, documented fact and common sense to one’s zeal and wishful-thinking; one sacrifices realism at the...
A Palestinian Defeat Is Good for All
JNS.org - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was photographed on December 21, carrying a copy of Nothing Less than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History, by...
Kerry’s False Moral Equivalence
JNS.org - Like many others, I sat at my computer with baited breath on Wednesday waiting for Secretary of State John Kerry to explain the US...
Moving US Embassy to Jerusalem: ‘World War III’ or a Simple ‘Reality Check’?
JNS.org -- The incoming Donald Trump administration’s stated intention to move America’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem has been met with a Palestinian reaction,...
Do the Palestinians Really Want a State?
In all the focus on the December 23rd vote at the UN Security Council -- where 14 nations supported a resolution critical of Israel, and...
The New York Times Blames Israel For a Palestinian Refugee Camp, Failing to Mention the UN Is Perpetuating It
A recent New York Times Magazine article by Rachel Kushner, titled “We Are Orphans Here: Life and Death in East Jerusalem’s Palestinian Refugee Camp,” describes the author's observations of the...
You Can’t Make Peace With Bad Leaders
JNS.org - On one of my first assignments abroad as a rookie journalist in the early 1990s, I found myself in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, just...
Palestinian Statehood: An Idea Whose Time Has Passed
JNS.org - John Kerry and J Street are worried -- because they see their cherished dream of a Palestinian state slipping away. Kerry's criticism of Israel at the...
Israel’s Arab Leadership Must Cease Fanning the Flames of Hatred
The current wave of Palestinian and Arab arson in Israel is being fueled and encouraged by antisemitic incitement on Arab social media. Although the arsonists constitute an extremist...
Yair Lapid, Champion of the Israeli Left, Says Palestinians Aren’t ‘Occupied’
JNS.org - When Israeli media personality Yair Lapid established the Yesh Atid ("There is a Future") party in 2012, the US State Department and Jewish left-wingers were...
What ‘Pro-Palestinian’ Really Means
On two separate occasions this year, Jewish students have been subjected to harassment and physical intimidation at London universities. At a meeting last week, I...
After Years of Institutional ‘Decay,’ Palestinians Finally Set for Overdue Elections
JNS.org - As it awaits the long-overdue leadership elections for the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinian populace faces an uncertain future. Within the West Bank, the situation has grown...
Democrats Must Scrutinize Keith Ellison’s Antisemitic Past and Ties to Radical Islam
Despite the furor over Trump aide Steve Bannon’s alleged antisemitism, there’s been virtually no media attention paid to the person likely to become the next chair...
Ordinary Palestinians Respond With Apathy to the American Election
JNS.org - Anyone reeling from the American presidential election results might want to take comfort in the laid-back attitude of some Palestinian civilians. At two competing Palestinian-owned...
